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Hiring talented individuals is critical to an organization’s success. In the recent times, there has been unprecedented growth in demand for top quality candidates. Talent acquisition in the fierce job market is the biggest challenge faced by recruiters and HR managers today. In this paper, we proposed an approach to tackle this problem using Biomimicry. It is a research stream to seek sustainable solutions to complex problems by observing and drawing inspiration from the patterns and strategies used by nature. Our proposed solution takes the recruitment strategies employed in ant colonies and by swarm of bees as reference and applies these talent acquisition patterns to human recruitment. It turned out to be an excellent fit for tackling recruitment challenge in many industries like IT. The feedback for the application of Biomimicry in real-life recruitment scenarios has been very encouraging and regarded as an innovative and out of the box solution for a widely known, pressing issue.
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Mittapally, N., Baggaraju, A., Kumara Swamy, M. (2021). Biomimicry for Talent Acquisition. In: Kumar, A., Mozar, S. (eds) ICCCE 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 698. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7961-5_10
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